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by rexpop 6mo ago
Wow, this comments exhibits a stunningly anemic appreciation for human dignity and self-determination.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
> I'm going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don't get distracted by that; I didn't know at the time. — Caleb Hearth 1. https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted
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by rexpop 6mo ago
It has just been alleged .
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by rexpop 6mo ago
How can you not care at all about the government forcing people to sacrifice their bodies in the most intimate way possible? To put one's sex organs to use against one's will? Disgusting.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
> it's not that deep. In your view what, if anything, is?
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by rexpop 6mo ago
I'm sorry, did God Almighty write the employee handbook?
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Everyone's just arguing about the seasonings.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Yes, the entire fascist project is one big tantrum.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
No; patrons express demand for the product, but corporations obscure the negative externalities. If patrons were shown the real price, we'd switch. But we're being lied to.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
I spend the majority of my adult life working, and you're telling me I should spend it surveilled?
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by rexpop 6mo ago
I agree! Not at all a laughing matter; rather, a critical landmark in the preservation of individual rights.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Why would you assume so? The author is critiquing notorious AI maximalist. FWIW, their are typoes in it, too.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
The fascist "suicidal state" fundamentally rejects reason, rationality, and civil progress.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Accidental evil? No. Fascism is fundamentally driven by a realized nihilism where pure destruction is the actual goal , rather than an accident. From the very beginning, the Nazi party explicitly promised the German people wedding bells
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by rexpop 6mo ago
> it sounds like these people use reddit Is giving "guy who's only seen Boss Baby " vibes.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
You make it sound as if Amodei is just playing the game—"make a profit"—while LeCun is playing the meta-game—"participate in building a functional society."
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Yawn. Spare us the lazy nihilism. If you want to make an argument for De Bord, you will have to go further and insist that the predominant substrate of modernity is both media and therefore fake. If, on the other hand, you are simply trying
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by rexpop 6mo ago
> If a 14 year old says that they are going to change the world, they are being very sincere even if an ‘adult’ knows that the likelihood is low. No, it's really a form of sincerity permitted by a sort of willfully affected naivete—
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Several Muslim-majority countries have received billions in U.S. aid for decades, not just recently. The clearest examples are Egypt, Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and, in humanitarian years, Syria and Yemen. Hell, Pakistan got more than $
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by rexpop 6mo ago
But the technical is entirely subservient to business concerns, or else what's the point?
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by rexpop 6mo ago
> Why date someone on your team Because I am there all day every day.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
OP is part of a facile, superficial milieu. You know—the common clay of the new world.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Business is just what you can get away with, apparently.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Smartass. What're you accomplishing, here?
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Somehow, doubt that you do.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
We don't actually know what is true. We can only surmise from the content of his speech. Usually, when one is making assertions about one's own beliefs, one intends to be understood and so the most straightforward interpretation i
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face does not convincingly impugn one's face.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
The straightforward way to read a self-professed Christian—and biblical literalist—characterizing a chapter of the Bible as “affirm[ing] God’s perfect law” is as an endorsement of the laws in that chapter—in this case, condoning the stoning
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by rexpop 6mo ago
I spent a lot of time reading the books on which these perspectives are based. You probably won't read the books. So I hope that, by writing about reality here on HN, I can expose you to some facts and ideas that you're too compla
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by rexpop 6mo ago
What Trump is doing is outright grift; payola, racketeering. And you think it's a good moment to complain about affirmative action?

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